Hi so I just got my hands on a SC072 and its pretty cool. Im having a lot of fun with it. But I was thinking since it has mips processors would it be possible to modify irix to run on it? Any thoughts?

Dragongolfer wrote:Hi so I just got my hands on a SC072 and its pretty cool. Im having a lot of fun with it. But I was thinking since it has mips processors would it be possible to modify irix to run on it? Any thoughts?

If you were SGI it would be feasible but otherwise, a LOT of work and some lucky black magic. You'd be better off doing something like the Maxx Desktop.

Since the real advantage of Irix is the close integration of the software and hardware, you're not really missing much by the loss of Irix on other hardware. Irix isn't magic, it just works very well on a certain constrained selection of hardware.

What could be really interesting would be to join Porter's SOM kit with Maxx Desktop. A truly object-oriented 4Dwm desktop on top of Linux/FreeBSD/whatever would be great. The Workplace Shell is killer, best desktop architecture ever designed.

I'm not even sure it would be feasible for SGI. You're talking a slightly different processor architecture, different connection methodology (UNICOS/mp hardware was based around NUMAlink, SiCortex isn't), different firmware, different I/O... possibly different endianness...

It wouldn't be much more work to tweak IRIX to run on PCs.

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

There are those who say I'm a bit of a curmudgeon. To them I reply: "GET OFF MY LAWN!"

What's sad is that the "business model" in the US today requires a company to make so much money so fast. In other countries, young companies with promise can last longer before they pull the plug. Maybe it was partly their decisions that blew the place up but in China, this place would have got some support. The entire American business model is broken.

All of a sudden it gave me an error saying "Server Authorization directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to /var/lib/gdm butthis does not exist. Please correct GDM configuration and restart GDM" anyone know how to fix this it wont let me login or anything.

Yes I got the OS media with it. I was able to fix the error so it works great now. Disk 1 contains Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for the x86 node and Disk 2 contains the modified version of Gentoo called SiCortex Linux for the MIPS processors.